Ryôma Sakamoto unites the Choshu and Satsuma clans and paves the way for the Meiji Restoration.

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...